HIST 294 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Southern Lebanon, Ehud Barak, Iranian Revolution

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 294
• Professor: Yakub Halabi

Document Summary

Hazbollah stormed onto the lebanese scene in late 1983 with a series of attacks on. Western and israeli targets in the country that cause hundreds of casualties, leading the. Since the early 1980s, the military struggle against israel, has been one of the main activities of the organization. This was a result of the influence of two major events in the middle eastern: one was. Already in the early 1980s, hezbollah bound itself to tehran a(cid:374)d si(cid:374)(cid:272)e the(cid:374) re(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed ira(cid:374)"s e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) a(cid:374)d politi(cid:272)al support. The 2nd event was the israeli invasion of lebanon in june 1982, which led the shiite community down the path of violent struggle against the israeli presence in south. Hezbolloah turned to a state within a state. Hez(cid:271)ollah e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)ded its a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455) (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the shiite (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)it(cid:455). With ira(cid:374)"s ge(cid:374)erous assistance, it established a network of educational and cultural institutions, and also health and social welfare services.